Whales and dolphins are highly intelligent creatures and feel pain and fear every bit as much as we do. Please contact the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands, the Faroe Islands Tourist Board and the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, and urge them to … On Aug. 8, 107 Long-finned Pilot whales were slaughtered in Sandavágur, on Vagar Island, a Denmark territory. On 29 May, 145 pilot whales and seven white-sided dolphins were killed in Torshavn bay and images of the slaughter triggered outrage on social media. Faroe Islanders have turned the sea red after slaughtering hundreds of whales as part of annual tradition. Sea Shepherd U.K. reports that 536 whales have been killed so far in the hunts this year By Kelli Bender. GRAPHIC CONTENT: A pod of pilot whales were lanced with gruesome hunting spears, colouring the water red and sending blood flying through the air in the city of Torshavn, in the Faroe Islands. The Faroese have eaten pilot whale meat and blubber since they first settled the islands over a century ago. Americans killed millions of buffaloes! Read more about whaling in the Faroe Islands. 70 pilot whales were killed in the village of Tvøroyri in the Faroe Islands on New Years Day. Photo by Andrija ILIC / AFP/Getty Images People gather in front of the sea, coloured red, during a pilot whale hunt in Torshavn, Faroe Islands, on May 29, 2019. The sea turns bloody red as an annual ritual in Denmark’s Faroe Islands sees locals kill hundreds of whales. ... Unborn calves plucked from inside dead whales after barbaric slaughter. 70 pilot whales were killed in the village of Tvøroyri in the Faroe Islands on New Years Day. The original version of this story identified Faroe Islands as part of Denmark. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the grind that occurred in Vestmanna, a town on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands… Image copyright Alastair Ward / Triangle News Animal rights and environmental activists posted these grisly images on social media, fanning the flames of a global outcry against the ritual slaughter of whales in the Faroe Islands. The Faroe Islands, a territory of Denmark lie to the north of the United Kingdom.It’s been an extremely bloody few weeks in the "Ferocious Isles," even by Faroese standards. The centuries-old slaughter has been slammed by … Whale drives only take place when a school of pilot whales is sighted close … The centuries-old slaughter has been slammed by … What makes you think we slaughter whales in a babaric way? Shocking images: Horror as 23 whales killed in Faroe Islands bloodbath THE SEA turned red last week when cruel hunters slaughtered 23 whales off the coast of the Faroe Islands.